23 SEP: Regent Seven Seas has added iPads to top suites on the newly-renovated liner Seven Seas Voyager.

21 SEP: Amazon River cruise company Aqua Expeditions has produced its own cookbook.

20 SEP: Orion Expedition Cruises said its 100-passenger Orion II had a soft grounding into mud while leaving the wharf at Sandakan in Sabah, Borneo, about 7pm local time on Sunday, industry website travelpulse.com reports.

20 SEP: British cruise passengers have voted New York the world’s best port, pushing perennial winner Venice into second place.

12 SEP: Florida’s Port Canaveral has become the first cruise port in America to employ bomb sniffer dogs to check passenger luggage.

12 SEP: The parents of a British woman who disappeared from the liner Disney Wonder in March are pressing the UK government to introduce tougher laws to protect British citizens from crimes at sea.

8 SEP: Avalon Waterways is cancelling 11 and 25 September departures of Avalon Tranquility following the weekend collision on the Danube.

2 SEP: Upmarket boutique UK cruise operator Hebridean Island Cruises is moving into the Europe river cruise market.

1 SEP: The star of the TV series ‘The Love Boat’ will be aboard Pacific Princess for part of a 107-day world cruise departing from Ft Lauderdale, Florida on 13 January.

1 SEP: North Korean workers are reported to have staged an enthusiastic ceremony for the nation’s first cruise departure.